Spiritual resurgence on Dartmoor
January 18th, 2008
posted by Cptn
We all love Dartmoor, but does it really have an ‘ethereal landscape’? The only way to find out is to watch Earth Pilgrim - A Year on Dartmoor, on BBC2 on Friday 18 at 8pm – cancel your plans, that’s tonight folks.
Editor of Resurgence magazine Satish Kumar walks the walk on the moor to explore ancient woods and rivers and spot the red deer, emperor moths and starling roosts.
Apparently his is a spiritual journey, with lyrical, uplifting and timely according to the BBC (whatever that means) meditiations on nature and the causes of nature. All we know is that Satish is a real international heavyweight when it comes to the environment, he’s right on your doorstep and well worth checking out.
Entry Filed under: Arts, Environment, Society
8 Comments Add your own
1. eddie | January 18th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
just watched this and found it both spiritually uplifting, and moving in a way i didn’t realise i could be moved (if that makes any sense)
the photography was amazing and satish kumar’s take on life on the moor is so refreshing in this age of taking things for granted, that it has made me think about what’s around me when i’m walking up there.
i loved it ……….great prog
2. Robert & Sheila Stephenson | January 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Practising what you preach is not the easiest thing to do but Satish Kumar does it with spiritual ease.Our walks on Dartmoor will certainly mean a great deal more and looked at with very different eyes.Absolutely
brilliant programme
3. jackie knipe | January 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
What was the soundtrack?
4. dee barker | January 20th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Just watched satish kumar’s program. Brilliant. I’ve moved to Dartmoor in Aug 2007 and everyday i am so gratefull that lifes path bought me hear. I have travelled many countries of the world and Devon is Absoulutly beautiful. I did especially like the spiritual side of the program. There needs to be more of these rather than the crap that where feed on the news and soaps.
Lets take a leaf out of Satish kumars book and try and be more loving to one another and all living creatures and the earth….its our only home!!!!!
5. Nanda Barnes | January 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Unlike my other Neature programmes which are apparently made to help endangered species so animals are caught and have collars and rings and all sorts of devices because some scientists think that’s the way to save Nature, Satish Kumar’s progam was about being one with Nature. As he quoted “live and let live”.
6. Nanda Barnes | January 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Unlike my other Neature programmes which are apparently made to help endangered species so animals are caught and have collars and rings and all sorts of devices because some scientists think that’s the way to save Nature, Satish Kumar’s progam was about being one with Nature. As he quoted “live and let live”.
7. Patricia Potter | January 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I stumbled on this beautiful programme by accident. If only this sort of opportunity to observe a life of fulfilment that has so obviously brought happiness, was a more regular item so that our young people could at least see the alternative to what appears to be a diet of violence and trashy life-styles that most of the daily TV fare offers up. An overwhelming feeling of the peace and beauty of the moor as experienced by this man could not help but leave an indelible impression of this other world that is around us if only we take the time to look and see it.
8. Jan Wakerley | January 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Does anyone know the location for the roosting starlings shown in the film?
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